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Create Success Newsletter
Volume I, Issue 4 - June 2004
Powerful Tips to Grow Your Business and Your Life
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"By thought, the thing you want is brought to
you. By action, you receive it."
- Wallace Wattles
In this issue ---
1. "Don't Say No To Prosperity"
2. Moving Sale
3. Mind Matters - "Shades"
4. Recommended Resources
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Lead Article
"Don't Say No To Prosperity"
© Wes Hopper - All Rights Reserved
You're probably asking yourself, "Who would
say No to prosperity? I sure wouldn't!" But you'd
be surprised how often it happens.
I was reminded of this recently when I was cleaning
out the garage for our move. (See the Moving Sale
item below.)
I had a whole bunch of electrical and plumbing
parts and supplies that I didn't want to move, and
were too good to throw out. So I invited a guy I
know who does handyman work to come over
and see what he could use.
The first thing I got from him was a story about
how changeable customers are. "This lady had
me over to just do some painting, and the next
thing ya know, she wants me to completely
remodel 2 bathrooms and the kitchen! It's a
6-month job."
"Wow, that great!", I thought, but he had a
different view. "Now I got a big problem because
I can't schedule all the other people that call
me", he said. In other words, this woman had
needlessly complicated his life by giving him
6 months of work.
Nowhere in the conversation did I hear even the
slightest touch of gratitude for this windfall. He
was telling the Universe - "Don't do this!"
And the Universe always says "Yes" to us.
But it gets even stranger. I had told him to take
what he wanted and pay me whatever he could
afford, but he insisted that I name a price. So I
looked at the aproximately $800 worth of wire,
fittings, boxes, etc and said, "Oh, you can have it
all for $100."
"No", he said, "I can't do $100 right now. Business
has been really slow."
Huh? He just got a 6-month, no competitive bid job,
couldn't handle all the others calling and business
was slow? I wonder what "business is good" would
look like!
I finally told him to take what he wanted for free
because it would help me to get it out of my garage.
After 5 minutes of deliberation, he took $10 worth of
PVC sprinkler fittings and left all of the expensive stuff
behind.
Now the lesson here is one for all of us to ponder.
How many times are we confronted with opportunity
and we can only see problems? The Universe is
trying its best to give us stuff, and we just say that
it's too much trouble. We might have to think; new
thoughts, new ideas! God forbid!
Charles Fillmore said that the reason that the
substance of the Universe is inexhaustible is because
it consists of rich ideas.
Wendy Craig-Purcell put it this way, " Part of being a
good receiver is being receptive to ideas that can
translate into products or services that people want.
If you are short of money, money isn't the problem.
Lack of money is the symptom. The real problem is
lack of ideas."
Here's one way to recognize a good idea: it excites
you and scares you at the same time.
It excites you because it resonates with your inner
mission and desire for more expression and more life.
It scares you because it will take you into uncharted
territory. You'll have to grow, to stretch, and step into
bigger shoes.
How many times do we turn away when we're
faced with that? But it's the price we pay for
a meaningful and prosperous life.
Make a conscious decision to tune in to the rich
store of ideas that are floating around. Some of
them are disguised as problems! They're just
waiting for someone to act on them. Why
shouldn't it be you?
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Moving Sale!
As some of you know, we're moving the offices of
Horn Creek Productions from Phoenix to Kansas
City. My wife is going back to school and that's
where the school is. We're selling as much of our
stock as we can so we don't have to move it.
Right now we have Mission in Commission
(cassettes) on sale for $97 (only 8 left), Winner's
Image on sale for $97 (only 9 left), and the powerful
Born Rich program with 11 hours of Bob Proctor on
video, (DVDs, CDs) discounted by $100 to only
$397 (only 2 left!).
When we sell this stock, we're
going back to list price, so don't wait. Read the full
descriptions and order at:
www.CreateSuccessSeminars.com/products.html
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Article #2 - Mind Matters - "Shades"
You remember the song that goes, "The future's so
bright, I gotta wear shades"? Like the man in my
story above, we sometimes prefer the darkness of
lack and limitation to the dazzle of prosperity and
success.
Why? What the heck is our problem?
As Shakespeare said, "The fault, dear Brutus, lies
not in the stars, but in ourselves." Specifically, in
our subconscious mind.
You see, the subconscious has a number of jobs, but
two of the main ones are these:
1. Survival - keep us out of danger
2. Make sure our beliefs and our experience of life
are in harmony.
So when we face a big step of growth, a scary step, it
triggers the survival instinct. "Take it slow, play it safe,
don't take risks", we're told.
When we look at a change that would cause us to play
bigger in life, a change that would cause us to step into
a bigger role, that causes a conflict with our self-image.
I see that happen often with solo entrepreneurs who have
the opportunity to grow into real business owners - with
an office, employees, assets, liabilities, P&L, all that
stuff. They get very uncomfortable!
The survival instinct looks at the risks like payroll, office
lease, etc. The self-image says, "I'm just little old me,
not a real CEO of a real company. Who do I think I'm
fooling?"
The subconscious has one and only one method of
solving these conflicts. It goes to work making us
so uncomfortable, so filled with doubt, fear and worry,
that we give up on the dream and go back to our
comfort zone. We put on the shades.
Bob Proctor call this the Terror Barrier experience. You
can expect this experience regularly if you are
committed to growth, so get used to it! The only
cure is to persevere in your determination to change.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
When you do, the subconcious will eventually get the
message that this is the new you, and the conflict will
settle down.
Until the next big step.
So take the shades off and enjoy the light. Your eyes will
adjust, and you'll find that a bright future is one heck of
a lot of fun! Remember, if you're not scared, you're
playing too small!
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Recommended Resources
Get Susan Jeffers' great book
"Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway".
Available at most bookstores or Amazon
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© 2004 Wes Hopper. All rights reserved.
Feel free to pass the above in its entirety to
anyone you wish.
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